XAMPP

The Apache Friends website indicates that XAMPP stands for "XAMPP Apache + MariaDB + PHP + Perl", making it a recursive acronym. XAMPP formerly used MySQL, but this was replaced with MariaDB on 19 October 2015 and beginning with XAMPP versions 5.5.30 and 5.6.14,{{cite web|url=https://www.apachefriends.org/blog/new_xampp_20151019.html|title=New XAMPP with MariaDB|publisher=Apache Friends|access-date=2016-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412205059/https://www.apachefriends.org/blog/new_xampp_20151019.html|archive-date=2016-04-12|url-status=live}} altering the meaning of the acronym. It originally stood for Cross-Platform + Apache + MySQL + PHP + Perl.

XAMPP requires only one zip, tar, 7z, or exe file to be downloaded and run, and little or no configuration of the various components that make up the web server is required. The Windows version of XAMPP requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable.

XAMPP is regularly updated to the latest releases of Apache, MariaDB, PHP and Perl. It also comes with a number of other modules, including OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, MediaWiki, Joomla, WordPress and more.{{cite web |url=https://www.apachefriends.org/add-ons.html |title=XAMPP Addons list |publisher=Apache Friends |date=2015-04-21 |access-date=2015-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322184437/https://www.apachefriends.org/add-ons.html |archive-date=2015-03-22 |url-status=live }} Self-contained, multiple instances of XAMPP can exist on a single computer, and any given instance can be copied from one computer to another.{{cite web |url=http://masunduh2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/instalasi-xampp.html |title=How to install XAMPP Software |publisher=Masunduh II |date=2015-04-21 |access-date=2015-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709225800/http://masunduh2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/instalasi-xampp.html |archive-date=2015-07-09 |url-status=live }} XAMPP is offered in both a full and a standard version (Smaller version).

The most obvious characteristic of XAMPP is the ease at which a WAMP webserver stack can be deployed and instantiated.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.pcworld.com:80/article/233860/xampp_for_windows.html|access-date=2018-10-18|date=2011-04-22|first1=Gabe|last1=Gralla|magazine=PCWord|publisher=IDG|title=XAMPP for Windows|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828091519/http://www.pcworld.com/article/233860/xampp_for_windows.html|archive-date=2017-08-28}} Later, some common packaged applications that could be easily installed were provided by Bitnami.{{cite web|url=https://www.apachefriends.org/bitnami_for_xampp.html|access-date=2018-10-18|title=Bitnami for XAMPP|website=Apache Friends|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623171928/https://www.apachefriends.org/bitnami_for_xampp.html|archive-date=2018-06-23|df=ymd-all}}

Officially, XAMPP's designers intended it for use only as a development tool, to allow website designers and programmers to test their work on their own computers without any access to the Internet. To make this as easy as possible, many important security features are disabled by default.{{cite web |url=http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html |title=apache friends - xampp for windows |publisher=Apachefriends.org |access-date=2008-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219130328/http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html |archive-date=2008-12-19 |url-status=live }} XAMPP has the ability to serve web pages on the World Wide Web.{{cite web|title=Where XAMPP is used commonly and what it can do.|url=https://globalhealthdatamanagement.tghn.org/community/blogs/post/5122/2013/07/xampp/|publisher=Owusu-Ansah Godfred|access-date=2012-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619220801/https://globalhealthdatamanagement.tghn.org/community/blogs/post/5122/2013/07/xampp/|archive-date=2015-06-19|url-status=live}} A special tool is provided to password-protect the most important parts of the package.{{cite web|title=XAMPP for Linux|url=http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#381|access-date=2012-04-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501135042/http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#381|archive-date=2012-05-01|url-status=live}}

XAMPP also provides support for creating and manipulating databases in MariaDB and SQLite, among others.

Once XAMPP is installed, it is possible to treat a local host like a remote host by connecting using an FTP client. Using a program like FileZilla has many advantages when installing a content management system (CMS) like Joomla or WordPress{{explain|reason=What advantages?|date=October 2018}}. It is also possible to connect to localhost via FTP with an HTML editor.

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